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A review article from the British Medical Journal on Alternative and Complementary medicine.
Web site presenting the dangers of chiropractic treatment, along with stories of litigation, fraud and bogus claims.
Healthcare-related communications from Nancy Yanes-Hoffman.
A collection of anti-quackery links and tools.
A database of negative testimony.
Reasons care givers and their clients who rely on anecdotal evidence and uncontrolled observations may erroneously conclude that therapies work.
Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.
Alternative medicine and quackery: what various alternative healing methods exist? For what diseases? Mainly critical viewpoints.
Personal opinion about James Davidson, proprietor, currently under a 63 count indictment in Tennessee for fraud for claiming to cure cancer.
Discussion of Alternative, Complementary, and Conventional treatments for cancer written by cancer patients. Also discusses the Cancer Conspiracy, and provides links to other resources.
George Nava True II presents his objections to iridology in a short article.
Nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Information on quackery, questionable therapies and products.
Adverse reactions to alternative herbal remedies and posibility to report them. Site by medical student Lori Anderson.
A true story that raises serious questions concerning the absence of accountability in physicians who market themselves as holistic.
Examines alternative (complementary) medicine from an evangelical Christian viewpoint using objective science and biblically based criteria.
Richard Dawkins, professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, notes that alternative medicine is defined as that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.
Skeptical information on alternative medicine in general and articles on several specific types.
Systemic reviews, meta analyses and generall information on alternative medicine from the Oxford University.
Article by Stephen Barrett debunks chiropractic hocus-pocus by visiting a chiropractor undercover as a patient.
A science writer's guide to debunking pseudoscience, the paranormal, homeopathy, and other far out claims of alternative medicine.
Scientist Vic Stenger's page on alternative medicine and quackery. Articles on homeopathy, energy healing and the science of prayer.
Information on diagnoses one can really observe in the eye, and why iridology is fraud.
Information from the American Cancer Society.
A brief biography and summary of techniques of the psychotronic healer Nicolai Levashov. Also a reply to critics and skeptics of his methods.
Defends that the content of coral calcium is not very different from calcium carbonate you find in supplements as Tums.
